Fruit Quotes - page 26

The modern State is not the rational and intelligent product of modern men desiring to live harmoniously together with security of life, property, and opinion. It is not an organization which has been devised as pragmatic means to a desired social end. All the idealism with which we have been instructed to endow the State is the fruit of our retrospective imaginations. (Randolph Bourne)
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"? People who do this ought to remember that if there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit. View quote
Galileo Galilei
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit touch it and the bloom is gone. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit. View quote
Thomas Malory
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May. View quote
Thomas Malory
By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
In about 1975-76, I lived with a woman in a little hut with some fruit trees, and I had some of the most extraordinary, happy times of my life. Apart from the horrendous Queensland police, who were corrupt and venal, it really was like living in paradise. View quote
Peter Carey
Loves that are lost ere they come to birth, Weeds of the wave, without fruit upon earth. I lose what I long for, save what I can, My love, my love, and no love for me! View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves. View quote
Periander
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death. View quote
Ray Comfort
[about Fruit of the Loom] What does fruit got to do with underbritches? I guess it's to remind us when we take them down we go, "Oh, I should've eaten more fruit today. I guess." (Larry the Cable Guy)
There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it. Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit, or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation, and persistence you can fix this desirable trait irrevocably. View quote
Luther Burbank
It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather. View quote
Fareed Zakaria
Duly twice a morning Would I be sprinkling it with fountain-water. At last it grew, and grew, and bore, and bore, Till at the length It grew a gallows, and did bear our son, It bore thy fruit and mine: O wicked, wicked plant. View quote
Thomas Kyd
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it, they remain barren. View quote
Bertrand Russell
We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle. View quote
Pablo Neruda
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness. View quote
Natalie Clifford Barney
Love the battle between chaos and imagination. Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Remember: Acting is the way to live the greatest number of lives. Remember: Acting is the same as real life, lived intentionally. Never forget: The Fruit is out on the end of the limb. Go there. View quote
Robert Fulghum
....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
And from the magic tree of life the fruit falls everywhere. View quote
George William Russell
I firmly believe that the higher [spiritual] experience can to a certain extent be prepared for by absolute devotion in the material world to another human being. Thus from the most worldly point of view and with no comprehension of the higher life of the spirit, the lower, more terrestrial spirit makes us aware that all the treasures of this life, all that fame, wealth and health can bring are nothing beside the happiness which is created and sustained by the love of one human being for another... but as the joys of human love surpass all that riches and power may bring a man, so does that greater spiritual love and enlightenment, the fruit of that sublime experience of the direct vision of reality which is God's gift and grace, surpass all that the finest, truest human love can offer. View quote
Aga Khan III
No root, no fruit. View quote
Utah Phillips
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.